Mailman 3 June 2011 - Mailman-Users

some problems about mailman
by Li, Jilong (MU-Student) 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

Hello, I installed mailman on my server, but some problems appeared. Could you please help me solve these problems? mailman version: 2.1.13 operating system: Red hat 4.1.2-50 python version: 2.4.3 gcc version: 4.1.2 problem 1: The requested URL /pipermail/aa/ was not found on this server. When I click the "aa Archives<http://sysbio.rnet.missouri.edu/pipermail/aa/>", a message "The requested URL /pipermail/aa/ was not found on this server" appears. (aa is a list I created) I added a few lines in the file "etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf": Alias /pipermail/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/multicom_toolbox/mailman/archives/public/" <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin/multicom_toolbox/mailman/archives/public"> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> I also set the directory "$prefix/archives/private": chown apache private chmod o-x private but the file "archives/public/aa/index.html" is 664, not 755. Does this attribute affact archives's work? problem 2: when I create a list, no email is sent to my mailbox, and no false message appears. I read the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/A4E9>. But, I did not find any fault set. problem 3: I run configure by the user "jl482", and I set the option "--with-mail-gid=jl482". Is that right? problem 4: Before installing mailman, I set user "jl482" as the owner of mailman. However, I do not know why, the owner of some files and directories is not jl482, is apache, such as data/virtual-mailman, qfiles, /lists, /archives/private, /archives/public, etc. Thank you very much! Victor

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Member's real name
by Pete Bell 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hi. I know how a member of a Mailman list can add their real name to their subscription through the user options page, but is this also possible by email commands? TIA Pete Bell, UK

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Editing Mailman's text files
by Pete Bell 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hi. I'm a new member of this group but have been running an email list with Mailman for a long time. I am now setting a list up again and want to give a "look and feel" to the list which has more branding of my user group as a whole, and less of a Mailman-feel. I seem to remember that besides editing the public HTML pages, it is possible to edit the text files which Mailman automatically sends out for certain needs (such as 'approve.txt', 'adminsubscribeack.txt', 'invite.txt', and so on). A. Is this still the case? B. If so, where can I find them? (in case they've changed from the ones I have from long ago). C. Where do they need putting, so that Mailman can use them again? It's important that I should tell you that Mailman on my webhosts servers is a "server-wide" installation, and I don't get to edit anything which other clients to their servers need. This would be only for my own use, and as such I need to know where these files go in my own webspace, and how to get Mailman to use them instead of the default ones. I should also say that I have done this before, so unless the facility to do this has been ditched in recent years, I *should* still be able to do it ! Does Mailman perhaps look for these files somewhere in my webspace (which I have to give a specific name), and if it doesn't find them it goes on to find its default versions of these files? Thanks in advance for your help. Pete Bell, UK

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Anonymous emails with the sender information
by Nigel Woodley 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Dear All Is there a way to use the anonymous emails feature but retain the sender information in the name and reply to fields ? To get around spam protection systems I want all emails to come from the list email address but that list members reply to the poster. Many thanks in advance Nigel

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sharing userbase with WordPress
by Luigi Rosa 12 Jun '11

12 Jun '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Is there a way to share the userbase of Mailman with WordPress? What I need is that the "master" database is Mailman and I would like to replicate (also via script) the accounts and passwords to WordPress. Is it possible? Thank you. Ciao, luigi - -- / +--[Luigi Rosa]-- \ SysAdmins follow a different PATH. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk30Q9wACgkQ3kWu7Tfl6ZTj7wCeNglfV9rjHNRuOAKmgNo5uGCf rzkAn0nD7Ma9+Ba9uIjQ4Dlki8fJlG5l =dUpY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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mail based moderation
by David elhijo Leroux 11 Jun '11

11 Jun '11

Hi, we are using mailman to manage several mailing lists. I'm looking for a way to moderate emails through email interface when I'm offsite. So I manage to use the -request address with the confirmxxxxxx topic from a notebook, but using my iPhone, I can't see attached email received in moderation notification from -owner, so I don't have any confirm id... Is there a workaround or do I missed something ? Thanks, David

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The requested URL /pipermail/aa/ was not found on this server
by Li, Jilong (MU-Student) 11 Jun '11

11 Jun '11

Hi, I installed mailman on my server, but some problems appeared. Could you please help me solve these problems? mailman version: 2.1.13 operating system: Red hat 4.1.2-50 python version: 2.4.3 gcc version: 4.1.2 problem 1: The requested URL /pipermail/aa/ was not found on this server. When I click the "aa Archives<http://sysbio.rnet.missouri.edu/pipermail/aa/>", a message "The requested URL /pipermail/aa/ was not found on this server" appears. (aa is a list I created) I added a few lines in the file "etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf": Alias /pipermail/ “/var/www/cgi-bin/multicom_toolbox/mailman/archives/public/” <Directory “/var/www/cgi-bin/multicom_toolbox/mailman/archives/public”> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> I also set the directory "$prefix/archives/private": cd $prefix/archives chown apache private chmod o-x private problem 2: when I create a list, no email is sent to my mailbox, and no false message appears. problem 3: my url is "http://$a.$b.edu/mailman" and my email address is "$name(a)mail.$b.edu". I set DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = '$b.edu' and DEFAULT_URL_HOST = '$a.$b.edu' and POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['$b.edu', '$b.edu']. Are these right? Thank you very much! Victor

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editing archives html page
by myron 11 Jun '11

11 Jun '11

To recover disk space I remove the archives on quite a few of my announcement lists. When I went to the "Go to archives page" I was surprised to see the Archive, View By, etc. listing of messages that were no longer there. Is there a command to clean that page so that it reflects the messages that are still to be seen. In my case, since I deleted all the messages it would say "No messages have been ... so archives are empty." That's usually what I see when I create a new list. I can copy the index.html file from an empty archive list and edit that, but is there a way easier way. --myron ================================= Myron Kowalski MoCoSIN Network/Systems Administrator Moravian College myron(a)cs.moravian.edu

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Group mismatch ( YES I KNOW THIS IS A FAQ BUT..)
by Peter Sørensen 10 Jun '11

10 Jun '11

Hi, I know this is a FAQ and yes I've tried to read all items and still I can't find my way out so hope someone Can shed some light to this. Just summarizing what I am about to do. I have an old mailman installation I need to port to a new server. The old one is based on EXIM as MTA but I would like to use postfix, because this is the one I use on a lot of servers. I need to make mailman virtual. I have around 20 mail domains to handle. So I install a Ubuntu 10.04LTS 64 bit and get the packages for postfix apache2 and mailman and install No problem. When trying to make the virtual postfix/mailman integration, I ran across a post recommending to use mailman 2.1.14 Ok - I removed the mailman package from Ubuntu , actually 2.1.13 - downloaded the 2.1.14 source Ran configure, make and make install all seems OK. I have added following to mm_cfg.py ################################################## MTA = "Postfix" # Put YOUR site-specific settings below this line. POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = [ 'test.sdu.dk', 'some.other.domain', ...... add_virtualhost('test.sdu.dk','test.sdu.dk' add_virtualhost('some.other.domain','some.other.domain') called check_perms -f called genaliases and checked that i have the files : my@mls2:/usr/local/mailman$ ll data/alia* -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 114222 2011-06-10 09:04 data/aliases -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 172032 2011-06-10 09:04 data/aliases.db my@mls2:/usr/local/mailman$ ll data/virt* -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 86149 2011-06-10 09:04 data/virtual-mailman -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 176128 2011-06-10 09:04 data/virtual-mailman.db Added to postfix main.cf: transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases virtual_alias_maps = hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/virtual-mailman mailman_destination_recipient_limit = 1 AND in transport i have entries like: test.sdu.dk mailman: some.other.domain mailman: .... Then when trying to send a mail to a new list I get the following in mail.log Jun 10 08:44:22 mls2 Mailman mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail#012wrapper script to be executed as group "mailman", but#012the system's mail server executed the mail script as#012group "nogroup". Try tweaking the mail server to run the#012script as group "mailman", or re-run configure, #012providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=nogroup'. Jun 10 08:44:22 mls2 postfix/local[28200]: 3E460FFDF2: to=<mailman-bounces(a)mls2.sdu.dk>, relay=local, delay=0.03, delays=0.01/0/0/0.02, dsn=5.3.0, status=bounced (Command died with status 2: "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman". Command output: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "mailman", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "nogroup". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "mailman", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=nogroup'. ) OK I go to the mailman source and recompile as suggested and get Jun 10 07:28:29 mls2 Mailman mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail#012wrapper script to be executed as group "nogroup", but#012the system's mail server executed the mail script as#012group "mailman". Try tweaking the mail server to run the#012script as group "nogroup", or re-run configure, #012providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mailman'. Jun 10 07:28:29 mls2 postfix/local[22760]: 711C8FFD9D: to=<its(a)mls2.sdu.dk>, orig_to=<its(a)test.sdu.dk>, relay=local, delay=14, delays=14/0.02/0/0.03, dsn=5.3.0, status=bounced (Command died with status 2: "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post its". Command output: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "nogroup", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "mailman". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "nogroup", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mailman'. ) Permissions on mailman wrapper are: ll /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23741 2011-06-10 07:30 /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman* Postfix alias file has permissions: ll /etc/alias* -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 775 2011-06-09 15:45 /etc/aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 12288 2011-06-10 07:43 /etc/aliases.db >From what I can see, the postfix should use the owner of the mail wrapper script and get the corresponding group and execute with that. Can anyone help? Regards Peter Sorensen/Univ. Of Southern Denmark/email: maspsr(a)sdu.dk

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Continued problems with Mailman on RHEL6.1
by Steven Jones 10 Jun '11

10 Jun '11

Hi, I am trying to create a new list via the mailman web interface, it appears to create a list but inbound emails to the list(s) are failing saying, user unknown in local recipient table. I am assuming that the web interface should add the list controls to the /etc/aliases file? it looks like it isnt... Either that or I suspect its meant to add to a file in /etc/mailman/aliases? and re-generate a /etc/mailman/aliases.db? and the above path should be in main.cf? so its found? However mailman is meant to work, it obviously isnt....or do I have it wrong? regards

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